Perstorp and Purac in partnership to develop caprolactone lactide copolymers

7:58 AM MDT | March 26, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

Perstorp (Perstorp, Sweden) says it has entered into a partnership with Purac (Gorinchem, Netherlands), a leading player in natural food preservation and biobased chemicals, for developing caprolactone lactide copolymers for the plastic, coatings, and adhesive markets. Combining the complementary strengths of Perstorp in specialty products for coatings and plastics with that of Purac in renewable lactic acid based chemicals has resulted in partly renewable caprolactone lactide coproducts, Perstorp says. Possible uses for this new caprolactone lactide copolymer...